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A few thoughts and poems about what America is doing and becoming.

Friday, April 04, 2008

A new poem:

A Call to Scorch this Land

Torquemada written in the blood of the impure remembered by those savants and survivors echoes in the history of western so-called civilization like the weeds that surreptitiously grow in the well tended garden

the wheels of war are but the means “kill the leaders and convert the rest” as he knows that the brutal iron fist is remembered longer than the delicate kiss

His feral manner was revealed as the clanking chains tightened screams reverberated up the spiral stairs but never beyond the iron bound doors blood begins to seep out of the pores until the appendages are separated from the torso

the cudgels that propel the perpetrators down the chutes into the razor wired cells are beginning instruments to rewire their brains as he has watched all the recordings in total silence while his hands are playing pocket pool over and over

Torquemada held secrets he could hide from his god anointed superiors of king and queen even from the messenger from his god- the holy see the pooling of blood and excrement upon innumerable hidden chamber floors couldn't cleanse his stain of being birthed by the descendants of Christ killers

sitting on concrete and to smell the freedom of the sea breeze no privacy as the cameras watch without stopping to survive in an 8' by 10' cell interrogations go on and on no matter the time of day sickness or in health to be married to the interrogators on this level of purgatory

His beliefs were powered by god as the white hot coals were driven into their flesh both bowels and bladder were released the stench imbued the mute stone walls while the words of renunciation were disbelieved

he turns to go closing the door he must go to the gym to work out again to feel good again to wash away the reality of what his commandments have wrought

Torquemada has heard no confession from the deceased with a wave of his manicured fingers the body will be fried until only ashes remain the soul was not worth saving will now walk upon an earthly limbo

Friday, February 02, 2007

Why does King Bush and Queen Cheney want another 245,000,000,000 dollars? To go to war with Iran?

There are 140,000+ American troops in Iraq but what is not being told to the American people is the 100,000+ Soldiers-of-Fortune in Iraq.

As other bloggers have noted, like Steve Gilliard, the military is in an untenable position for withdrawal from Iraq. There is no easy access to sea ports for mass evacuation. What the military would have to do is to fight it's way out of the country.

All ready we have witnessed that the Iraqis can seriously hamper our supply lines through IED's, RPG's, and heavy machine gun fire.

This is Dien Ben Phu on a country wide scale.

It is time for Congress to halt this war and bring our troops home.

King Bush and Queen Cheney shall be held accountable to our justice system.

Why does King Bush and Queen Cheney want another 245,000,000,000 dollars? To go to war with Iran?

There are 140,000+ American troops in Iraq but what is not being told to the American people is the 100,000+ Soldiers-of-Fortune in Iraq.

As other bloggers have noted, like Steve Gilliard, the military is in an untenable position for withdrawal from Iraq. There is no easy access to sea ports for mass evacuation. What the military would have to do is to fight it's way out of the country.

All ready we have witnessed that the Iraqis can seriously hamper our supply lines through IED's, RPG's, and heavy machine gun fire.

This is Dien Ben Phu on a country wide scale.

It is time for Congress to halt this war and bring our troops home.

King Bush and Queen Cheney shall be held accountable to our justice system.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Chalmers Johnson writes in TPMmuckraker today:

History is instructive on this dilemma. If we choose to keep our empire, as the Roman republic did, we will certainly lose our democracy and grimly await the eventual blowback that imperialism generates. There is an alternative, however. We could, like the British Empire after World War II, keep our democracy by giving up our empire. The British did not do a particularly brilliant job of liquidating their empire and there were several clear cases where British imperialists defied their nation's commitment to democracy in order to hang on to foreign privileges. The war against the Kikuyu in Kenya in the 1950s and the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956 are particularly savage examples of that. But the overall thrust of postwar British history is clear: the people of the British Isles chose democracy over imperialism.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Irene Orleansky - Chapman Stick

This is an amazing music made by a very innovative music instrument.

I first learned about this instrument about ten years ago. At that time I owned a used bookstore and art gallery. In the art gallery part I had a number of concerts by both local and touring musicians and bands.

The music I enjoyed and was challenged by was noise music by such local bands as Page 27.

Other music that I liked was electronica of such groups as Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream or musicians like Vollenweider, Tomita, and Carlos.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Hope everyone has a good holiday season.

My grad school class is almost over with.

I just have one paper left to write, which is on San Antonio v Rodriguez SCOTUS decision that denied the "right to education" as being a fundamental right implied within the 14th Amendment. The decision is a repudiation of Brown v School Board of Topeka.

Next semester I'll be taking "Research Methods" and another class that I'm not sure what on as of now.